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Chapter XVI.—That No One But the
Unchangeable Light Knows Himself.
19. For altogether as Thou art, Thou only
knowest, Who art unchangeably, and knowest unchangeably, and
willest unchangeably. And Thy Essence Knoweth and Willeth
unchangeably; and Thy Knowledge Is, and Willeth unchangeably; and
Thy Will Is, and Knoweth unchangeably. Nor doth it appear just to
Thee, that as the Unchangeable Light knoweth Itself, so should It
be known by that which is enlightened and changeable.1285
| 1285 See Dean Mansel on this place (Bampton
Lectures, lect. v. note 18), who argues that revelation is
clear and devoid of mystery when viewed as intended “for our
practical guidance,” and not as a matter of speculation. He says:
“The utmost deficiency that can be charged against human
faculties amounts only to this, that we cannot say that we know God
as God knows Himself,—that the truth of which our finite minds
are susceptible may, for aught we know, be but the passing shadow
of some higher reality, which exists only in the Infinite
Intelligence.” He shows also that this deficiency pertains to the
human faculties as such, and that, whether they set themselves to
consider the things of nature or revelation. See also p. 193, note
8, above, and notes, pp. 197, 198, below. | Therefore
unto Thee is my soul as “land where no water is,”1286
because as
it cannot of itself enlighten itself, so it cannot of itself
satisfy itself. For so is the fountain of life with Thee, like as
in Thy light we shall see light.1287
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